classification isn't so good when the italians may publish their side of the story too. it only weakens the USA's position in the media (less material to work with)
There is another reason to keep secrets than the obvious one (keep embarrasing facts away from the public).
An insight into how the U.S. sees the roadside bombing might be of use for the people attacking the soldiers. Publications like this might end up getting people killed.
(I'm not American. I think the invasion in Iraq was stupid, but if U.S. has to do it -- do it right. Create an Arab democracy. Don't just get people killed and end up with another dictator taking over in Iraq five years from now.)
As other posters wrote, there are known
examples of speciation.
Also, I'd suggest an experiment...
Dear creationist, inject yourself with some dangerous bacteria. Take half a pencillin cure, wait a while and take the other half. If the bacteria hasn't evolved protection from the antibiotics, you'll live.
Repeat a few times.
We others will think of it as evolution in action -- and as a creationist you should be happy to receive a
Darwin award.
Enough humor.
I also have a belief that I'd like to share with you, since you have wasted my time by posting your ignorant beliefs onto a (more or less) serious web page.
The human mind's ability to filter out facts and believe whatever it has emotional needs to believe, is the main reason I classify myself as a misanthrope.
I see true believers like you as worse than psychopats. You are the main problem with humanity that destroys discussions about society and everything else.
Seriously, though. When I had a terrible time doing support for a program I wrote (fitting punishment), I thought that the world was made of users and supporters. Two conclusions... 1. Everyone are users of other's support and almost everyone are doing support, too. 2. All users are idiots, because we don't have time to think about things and ask instead.
You could of course be right -- Microsoft might be innocent in this particular case.... for now.
Multiple people have pointed out that this is typical behaviour of monopolists and the number of examples regarding Microsoft are numerous. They don't even follow court orders.
Noone has argued against that.
So your comment was not relevant. Your insult says more about... why am I arguing with you? Good bye.
you're just being paranoid [...]
v1.1 of.Net lacked certain features necessary [..]
Without looking into the matter, it might be needed extensions. As you write.
But... I'm not even going to Google for info on protocols, file formats, etc, etc.
Microsoft has a long history of using the standard monopolist tactics of restricting interoperability.
They will hardly stop doing it even if ordered to do so by a court (see recent EU problems). You certainly know that, too, so you are being disingenious.
PSS feels sort of lost and confused in spots, not sure where it's going or why.
I thought Perdido SS used the confusing richness as a literary effect to give you a bit of vertigo when looking at the complex world. Just too much in that world.
Something like the feeling when reading bad manuals about too complex APIs...
It was the emotional effect on this reader, anyway.
Being Swedish, I've always thought it was quite strange, this attitude from US and English towards the French.
I've never met anyone from France that was rude and refused to try to speak English -- quite the opposite.
I've heard it argued that Americans go to Paris to "see France" -- and their opinions about the French is more or less similar to the common French opinion about people living in Paris...:-)
It has been a bit frustrating, when the "frogs" don't live up to the image I get from being steeped in the literature of English speaking (or mangling) cultures.
But I'll have to change opinion now.:-(
It do give a bit of perspective at the local politicians. There are worse examples.
Just let me note, regarding your drug company example, that medicines generally doesn't make it unhealthy for everyone in a corporation to use alternative drugs from another company...:-)
The rest is a bit off topic. I commented instead of using mod points.
There are advantages and disadvantages with the European social model (as compared to USA).
The parent points out that his tax money will likely not be as well spent as if he controls them himself.
He do have a point. Trust me on this. I'm Swedish, highest taxes in the world. Not much of public spending works well enough for what we pay (police, military, health care, etc). Some things less bad than others.
But it's a nice place -- few desperate people, for example, makes for a different societal climate. Is it worth all the money? I don't really know.
I think the main problem with the Swedish welfare state is that it isn't stable. We have had it for a few decades and a larger and larger percentage of the population lives off it.
So I think the US will continue to pull ahead.
If the work market for computer people gets better, I'll leave.
But in reality you're going to find [true believers] everywhere. In all religions, all philosophies, all politics.
Sigh. You might find the same emotional reactions among some people arguing for e.g. the scientific method.
But there is a reason that people use the scientific method (it works) and it is not by definition based on pure emotion without any reality connection. In contradiction to faith, which was discussed.
To make your point while failing to mentioning that distinction, makes me doubt your intellectual integrity.
There is a distinction and you well know it, if you try being honest with yourself.
Is a solution so weak that it probably doesn't even contain a single molecule of the active ingredient any different from a solution that isn't an active ingredient at all?
Anyone tried to make poison using homeopathy?
Sounds like the premise for a crime novel about the perfect murder.:-)
This company is the real deal. The product, of course, is overhyped (I bet the 5 cent/kWh is in the Arizona desert!)
This is a way to see if it's hyped:
Has people on the company board (or investors) bought areas in deserts close to large energy users (e.g. companies manufacturing paper)?
this is a country with over 3000 years of continuous existence, compared to our 200 years. I would suggest to you that they may know more about maintaining their environment and preserving for the future than we do.
This incredible naivité made my day. Thank you.
What is the world coming to? Don't the kids of today learn any cynicism while growing up!?
I could Google for some references on pollution in China, but you can do that yourself. (N B, China is a closed society that wants to look good. Probably only a fraction of the environmental problems gets known in the west.)
I really have too little time now and got too many answers that I felt I should discuss. Otherwise, I would have answered outrageous claims by asking for references -- and ignored it if none were forthcoming.
I'm over 40. I don't put much time into answering you. But OK, troll, I'll give you a chance.
I was there -- I saw IE go from nothing to own the market in a short time without any large benefits compared to Netscape. If the bundling wasn't the major part, what was? You make claims so give supporting references (not from Microsoft paid research, plz).
Slashdot Mirror
An insight into how the U.S. sees the roadside bombing might be of use for the people attacking the soldiers. Publications like this might end up getting people killed.
(I'm not American. I think the invasion in Iraq was stupid, but if U.S. has to do it -- do it right. Create an Arab democracy. Don't just get people killed and end up with another dictator taking over in Iraq five years from now.)
Some site must collect all the different aspects through the decades, from "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run" to Sendo.
I looked before and couldn't find any good source.
Add something about evaluation of fitness functions.
Or write about neutral mutations (genetic drift). Then it becomes obvious how isolated populations can speciate from that.
Consider a career in education.
Also, I'd suggest an experiment...
Dear creationist, inject yourself with some dangerous bacteria. Take half a pencillin cure, wait a while and take the other half. If the bacteria hasn't evolved protection from the antibiotics, you'll live.
Repeat a few times.
We others will think of it as evolution in action -- and as a creationist you should be happy to receive a Darwin award.
Enough humor.
I also have a belief that I'd like to share with you, since you have wasted my time by posting your ignorant beliefs onto a (more or less) serious web page.
The human mind's ability to filter out facts and believe whatever it has emotional needs to believe, is the main reason I classify myself as a misanthrope.
I see true believers like you as worse than psychopats. You are the main problem with humanity that destroys discussions about society and everything else.
Seriously, though. When I had a terrible time doing support for a program I wrote (fitting punishment), I thought that the world was made of users and supporters. Two conclusions... 1. Everyone are users of other's support and almost everyone are doing support, too. 2. All users are idiots, because we don't have time to think about things and ask instead.
(What Saint Dogbert preaches, I guess.)
Noone has argued against that.
So your comment was not relevant. Your insult says more about ... why am I arguing with you? Good bye.
You could of course be right -- Microsoft might be innocent in this particular case .... for now.
But I wouldn't bet money on it. They aren't so stupid they don't try to hide it when they can.
But... I'm not even going to Google for info on protocols, file formats, etc, etc.
Microsoft has a long history of using the standard monopolist tactics of restricting interoperability.
They will hardly stop doing it even if ordered to do so by a court (see recent EU problems). You certainly know that, too, so you are being disingenious.
A marriage born in... well, never mind. :-)
Something like the feeling when reading bad manuals about too complex APIs...
It was the emotional effect on this reader, anyway.
I've never met anyone from France that was rude and refused to try to speak English -- quite the opposite.
I've heard it argued that Americans go to Paris to "see France" -- and their opinions about the French is more or less similar to the common French opinion about people living in Paris... :-)
It has been a bit frustrating, when the "frogs" don't live up to the image I get from being steeped in the literature of English speaking (or mangling) cultures.
But I'll have to change opinion now. :-(
It do give a bit of perspective at the local politicians. There are worse examples.
Microsoft here emulated the paragons of integrity: Tobacco companies.
Just let me note, regarding your drug company example, that medicines generally doesn't make it unhealthy for everyone in a corporation to use alternative drugs from another company... :-)
The rest is a bit off topic. I commented instead of using mod points.
There are advantages and disadvantages with the European social model (as compared to USA).
The parent points out that his tax money will likely not be as well spent as if he controls them himself.
He do have a point. Trust me on this. I'm Swedish, highest taxes in the world. Not much of public spending works well enough for what we pay (police, military, health care, etc). Some things less bad than others.
But it's a nice place -- few desperate people, for example, makes for a different societal climate. Is it worth all the money? I don't really know.
I think the main problem with the Swedish welfare state is that it isn't stable. We have had it for a few decades and a larger and larger percentage of the population lives off it.
So I think the US will continue to pull ahead.
If the work market for computer people gets better, I'll leave.
But there is a reason that people use the scientific method (it works) and it is not by definition based on pure emotion without any reality connection. In contradiction to faith, which was discussed.
To make your point while failing to mentioning that distinction, makes me doubt your intellectual integrity.
There is a distinction and you well know it, if you try being honest with yourself.
Sounds like the premise for a crime novel about the perfect murder. :-)
(Remember the Dutch minister that voted against his instructions from home, because of an "error".)
Has people on the company board (or investors) bought areas in deserts close to large energy users (e.g. companies manufacturing paper)?
1/2 a :-)
What is the world coming to? Don't the kids of today learn any cynicism while growing up!?
I could Google for some references on pollution in China, but you can do that yourself. (N B, China is a closed society that wants to look good. Probably only a fraction of the environmental problems gets known in the west.)
I really have too little time now and got too many answers that I felt I should discuss. Otherwise, I would have answered outrageous claims by asking for references -- and ignored it if none were forthcoming.
I was there -- I saw IE go from nothing to own the market in a short time without any large benefits compared to Netscape. If the bundling wasn't the major part, what was? You make claims so give supporting references (not from Microsoft paid research, plz).
You can't seriously say that Netscape lost out '97 mainly because IE was preloaded.
Oh, OK, you might say it. I don't believe that you believe it.
I think you're a troll. Goodbye.
Especially true '97 when people mostly had slow modems to fetch large programs.
I'm sorry I misread you; I just couldn't believe anyone would claim that!!
I used both at the time -- and IE didn't have enough advantage to win by itself without the bundling.